Harper’s Weekly – May 21, 1864

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1861-1865: Seminar and Discussion Forum
The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: May 2025.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

https://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:homerjsimpson/index?tab=articles

To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.

Link to previous Harper’s Weekly thread

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts

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Gen. Sherman’s Advance – 1, 15
At Gettysburg – 2
The Victory – 2
To a Jackson Democrat – 2
The Humiliation of England – 2
Picture Preaching – 2-3
General Wadsworth – 3
Charity Begins at Home – 3
Rev. Dr. M’Clintock – 3
William Sidne Thayer – 3
All Hail, Ohio! – 3
Domestic Intelligence – 3-4
Foreign News – 4
Army and Navy Items – 4
Revenge – 4
Musical Festival in Philadelphia – 5, 15
General Butler’s Movement – 6, 15
Quite Alone, by George Augustus Sala, Ch. XXI cont.-XXII – 7-9
Humors of the Day – 9
A Night’s Lodging in Paris – 9, 11
Rebel Atrocities – 10, 15
Map of Virginia, Showing the Military Operations of Generals Grant and Butler – 12
Map of Richmond, Virginia – 13, 15
Destruction of East Tennessee Railroads – 14-15
Destruction of Schooners off Homosassa River – 14-15
Gen. James S. Wadsworth – 15
Sleep and Death – 15
Surprised – 15-16

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Continued from May 18 (reply #37).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts#37

Jean Edward Smith, Grant

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Continued from May 20 (reply #58).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts?q=1&;page=51#58

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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Continued from Continued from May 20 (reply #59).

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4237730/posts?q=1&;page=51#59

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

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Diary of Gideon Welles: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“Last night I was at a party at Mr. Chase’s, or his daughter Mrs. Sprague’s, and late in the evening he spoke to me of the great abuses in cotton speculations.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-gideon-welles-saturday-may-21.html

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“General Crook thinks Grant will force the fighting until some definite result is obtained.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_4.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 21, 1864 (“I hear that they found the enemy on the south bank of the Etowah river, and that he disputes the crossing.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-21-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Saturday, May 21, 1864 (“It’s been a worrying day. Since the fourteenth we’ve done nothing but march and countermarch and change about.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_26.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 21, 1864 (“Dr. Lewis lingers along in a miserable state of existence, and scurvy and dropsy doing their worst.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_3.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 21, 1864 (“The enemy, it is said to-day, did not regain the works from which they were driven, but are now cooped up at Bermuda Hundred. Nothing is feared from Butler.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-21.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 21, 1864 (“I heard to-day that my brother Morris was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, Pa. I asked for a parole to-day to go and see my parents in New York, but they could not see it.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-21-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

“Grant,” reply #3
“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” #4
“Lee,” #5
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #6
John Jackman, #7
John Hay, #8
George Templeton Strong, #9
Links to 7 items at Civil War Notebook, #10

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Continued from May 21 (reply #4).

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two

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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, edited by Robert Hunt Rhodes

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Continued from Continued from May 21 (reply #5).

Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell

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Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

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Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade, Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis

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With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860-1865, edited by Michael Burlingame

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Inside Lincoln’s White House: The Complete War Diary of John Hay, edited by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger

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Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Sunday, May 22, 1864 (“News from Grant confirms my impression that the storm, mud, and rain prevented a decisive victory.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2020/03/diary-of-colonel-rutherford-b-hayes_54.html

Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Lyman to Elizabeth Russell Lyman, May 22, 1864 (“Gen. Meade said to me at breakfast: ‘I am afraid the rebellion cannot be crushed this summer!’”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/lieutenant-colonel-theodore-lyman-to_5.html

Major Charles Fessenden Morse: May 22, 1864 (“Atlanta is evidently our destination; whether we shall reach it or not remains to be seen.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/06/major-charles-fessenden-morse-may-22.html

Captain Charles Wright Wills: May 22, 1864 (“We are drawing 20 days’ rations, sending sick back to convalescent camp at Chattanooga, and making all preparations for a hard campaign.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2018/09/captain-charles-wright-wills-may-22-1864.html

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Lemuel A. Abbott: Sunday, May 22, 1864 (“The enemy appeared on our right flank about 3 o’clock a. m. evidently with the intention of cutting us off from the rest of the army, but didn’t succeed.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2016/10/diary-of-2nd-lieutenant-lemuel-abbott_27.html

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 22, 1864 (“We have a sign out, made by myself on a piece of shingle: ‘WASHING.’ We get small pieces of bread for our labors”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2017/07/diary-of-1st-sergeant-john-l-ransom-may_7.html

Diary of Private Daniel L. Ambrose: May 22, 1864 (“To-day Lieutenants Sullivan and Rowett are sent with a flag of truce into North Alabama, to negotiate an exchange for our men who were captured on the seventh.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2023/09/diary-of-private-daniel-l-ambrose-may_30.html

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: May 22, 1864 (“I saw some of the enemy’s wounded this morning, brought down in the cars, dreadfully mutilated. Some had lost a leg and arm— besides sustaining other injuries. But they were cheerful, and uttered not a groan in the removal to the hospital.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2021/08/diary-of-john-beauchamp-jones-may-22.html

Diary of Private Louis Leon: May 22, 1864 (“Nothing new from the front.”)

https://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2024/02/diary-of-private-louis-leon-may-22-1864.html

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Today’s posts:

“Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Volume Two,” reply #12
Elisha Hunt Rhodes, #13
“Lee,” #14
Gen. Sherman letter to Mrs. Sherman, #15
John Jackman, #16
John G. Nicolay, #17
John Hay, #18
Links to 9 items at Civil War Notebook, #19